Re: results of VATS????? - Hi again all

[Guest guest]

Just popping back in tonight after being away awile again. I seem to do that -

float away and float back in.

I also suffer from bronchospasms. The WORSE is that instead of having

brain-freeze in my brain, now I have it in my chest. I swear the first time I

thought I was having a heart attack. I got a tip from a friend who worked for a

dentist. Before I drink a really cold drink, like a watermelon slush or

something yummy like that - I suck a little up into the straw and hold it on the

tip of my tongue to numb it. And then most avoid the chest-freeze thing.

S, Lubbock, TX

NSIP w/PF 12/2006 et al

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> > > > > > > Hi everybody,

> > > > > > > Well I saw my pulmo-dude last week and the surgeon yesterday and

my

> > > > > > > diagnosis is not specifically one thing or another. I'm going to

> > > > write it

> > > > > > > all here and maybe someone else had a similar result.

> > > > > > > Final Pathologic Diagnosis- Cellular Interstitial Inflammation

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> > > > > > > numerous fibroblastic foci and mild interstitial fibrosis.

> > > > > > > Biopsies show a cellular mixed inflammatory infiltrate of

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> > > > > > > histiocytes in the alveolar septae. Scattered throughout the

> > > > alveoli are

> > > > > > > several small fibroblastic foci in the interstitium. There is mild

> > > > > > > interstitial fibrosis thickening of the alveolae septae. No dense

> > > > > > > honeycombing. Findings are consistant with a cellular fibrosing

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> > > > > > > pneumonitis. Differential diagnosis is a mixed NSIP pattern and

UIP.

> > > > > > > Presence of fibroblastic foci favors UIP but the dense fibrosing

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> > > > > > > with UIP is not observed in the samples. A similar histologic

> > > > picture may be

> > > > > > > observed in collagen vascular disease, pneumoconoisis, and

> > > > hypersensitivity

> > > > > > > pneumonitis. Suggest correlation with clinical and radiologic

> > > > findings.HUH?

> > > > > > > This is not how an episode of HOUSE MD ends! Anyway I am being

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> > > > > > > my pulmo-dude to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center-NYC which

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> > > > > > > interstitial lung disease department to be evaluated. I am back

> > > > at work and

> > > > > > > so happy to be out of the house. My company is giving me a

> > > > parking spot

> > > > > > > closest to the lobby and I also got from Motor Vehicles a

> > > > handicapped

> > > > > > > placard since I am on O2 for exertion. - nne

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> > > > > > Dyane L. Billings

> > > > > > Senior Staff Accountant

> > > > > > Ball & McGraw PC

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